Mobile Phones, Institutional Quality And Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study investigates whether mobile phone penetration modulates the effect of different indicators of governance on some indicators of the ease of doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from the period 2000–2012 by employing the Generalised Method of Moments. Three broad concepts of governance are explored: (i) political (comprising voice & accountability and political stability/no violence), (ii) economic (involving government effectiveness and regulation quality) and (iii) institutional (including corruption-control and rule of law). Ten dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the interaction between mobile phones and governance dynamics. They are (1) reduced cost of business start-up procedure, the time to build a warehouse and the time to resolve an insolvency and (2) increased time to enforce a contract, to register a property and to prepare and pay taxes. Implications for theory and policy are discussed. Some of the engaged policy implications include the following. (i) Measures on how to leverage on the potential of mobile phone penetration for entrepreneurship opportunities by addressing challenge of access to and affordability of mobile phones on the one hand and on the other hand, improving on the role of the mobile phone as a participative interface between emerging entrepreneurs and governance. (ii) The relevance of the mobile phone in mitigating information asymmetry between entrepreneurs and government institutions, notably by: reducing government inefficiency (which potentially represents an additional cost to doing business) and decreasing informational rents, bureaucracy and transaction costs

Programme of Work and Budget for 1993/94 - Part I: Programme of Work and Summary Tables

Table A-H includedThe Programme of Work and Budget (PWB) for 1993/94 has been shaped by two major considerations. The first is implementation of the three aims set for phase II, which enters its third and final year in January 1993. The second is to lay a sound foundation for the AERC's third triennial phase commencing April 1994..

Programme of Work and Budget for 1993/94 - Part II: Detailed Notes

Contents: A. Income; B. General Administration; C. Programme Management; D. Research Programme; E. Publication and Dissemination; F. Training Programme; G. Collaborative MA Programme; H. Capital Budge

Controlling supply The concept of need in liquor licensing

Alcohol insights are brief summaries of AERC projects, this project is the work of Roy Light and Susan HeenanSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:0786.779(2) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Alcohol sales to underage adolescents

Alcohol insights are brief summaries of AERC projects, this project is the work of Paul Wilner et alAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:0786.779(1) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Reducing alcohol consumption in young men with alcohol-related facial injuries

Alcohol insights are brief summaries of AERC projects, this project is the work of Jonathan Shepherd et alAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:0786.779(3) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Fast screening for alcohol problems

Alcohol insights are brief summaries of AERC projects, this project is the work of Bev John et alAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:0786.779(5) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Surveys of the distribution of freshwater crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes in Northern Ireland

Research carried out under contract by AERC Ltd.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:3791.1012(98/2) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo